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EPIDEMICS SWEEP |i
ALL OVER CHICAGO,
Neariy 15,000 Cases Caused by
impure Raw Milk. 1
STOPS ALL SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
Appeal Made to Pubiic?Asked to j
Give Up Balls Parties and Other 3
Amusements Until Scarlet Fever ,
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Can Be Checked. s
Chicago. ? Extraordinary precau- 1
lions were taken to check the scarlet ?
fever and diphtheria epidemic in Chi- '
cago. A proclamation asking aid j
from the public by the canceling of j
Bocial functions, an offer of assist- t
ance from prominent medical men. i
the appointment of a commission of 1
physicians to help in an Aldermanic j
Inquiry, and the removal of central ?
police details to make room for the 1
Health Department, were among the 'c
features which developed when it was
found that the record breaking *
figures of the contagion were marked ;
again by high numbers.
Three hundred and fourteen new
cases of scarlet fever, fifty-five of 1
diphtheria and twenty-five of measles (
were reported on the day the procla- *
mation was issued.
It is estimated that the total cases j
of contagious diseases which have de- j
veloped in the present epidemic is ;
^ considerably in excess of 10,000, and 1
may reach 15,000. !
r,Ammiccinnor r*f Woolfh W '
VVUIUiltfdtVUVt V/4 XAVUkbU V- ? t
Whalen issued a call to the people of 1
Chicago to cancel social gatherings
and other public meetings for several J
W we.oks in order to aid the department
?in suppressing epidemic conditions. I
This followed the official announce- *
tnent that scarlet fever and diphtheria
cases reported indicate that the ?
epidemic has advanced appreciably, i
Churches, Sunday-schools and theatres
were not included in Dr. Wha- 1
ten's request. b
The Commissioner explained that *
while he desired the assistance of the t
public he did not believe it necessary t
to go further than his request indi- r
cates. He declared that, in the opin- e
ion of the department, it would not
be wise to order the closing of any t
public schools, as the new medical in- i
.. Bpectors were doing competent woric i
toward preventing the spread of any '
disease through that source. ^ (3
Records of the Health Department f
show the present epidemic to be one t
of the most serious the city has
known. The records show that the I
number of cases of scarlet fever in a
the last four days vastly exceeds the I
total for the whole month of January f
in a normal year. t
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1 $5,000,000 FOR CHARITY. I
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William Whitcley's Will Provides For r
Homes For Aged Poor.
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London. ? The will of William j.
Whiteley, the London merchant who ^
,\vas murdered last week, makes a j.
number of generous charitable be- t
quests, the chief being $5,000,000 to r
provide and maintain almshouses to j.
be known as the "Whiteley Homes v
For the Aged Poor." _
Mr. Whiteley leaves $250,000 to ,
each of his two sons, and his sister ^
and her two daughters receive annu- v
ities of $5000 each. His wife, from c
whom he had separated, was "provided
for during life." In addition
to several other family and household
bequests Mr. Whiteley leaves sums
varying from $2500 to $10,000 to a '
number of hospitals, while two sums
of $25,000 each are left in trust, one
to be applied to the giving annually ^
through a certain clergyman of 1
"Whiteley Christmas gifts," while f
the income of the second sum is to1' a
be devoted to the promotion of a
cricket, football, rowing and swim- c
ming. Any residue is to be divided r
between Mr. Whiteley's two sons.
The unusual public interest in the
,Whiteley tragedy was shown by the q
bUt'Ii^b <*L IUC lUUCittl \JL LUC mci* I
chant. Long before the hour for the r
ceremony thousands of persons gath- a
ered about the home and dense t
masses lined the streets leading to s
the church where the service was r
4" held. ,
Most of the shops in the West.bourne
Grove district kept their shutters
up and more than 100 carriages
followed the hearse to the cemetery. *
Four of these were laden with floral
.wreaths.
GOV. SWETTENHAM APOLOGIZES. *
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.Withdraws Letter to Admiral Davis *
and Expresses Regret. \
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London.?The Associated Press c
learns that the international phase of
the Kingston incident has been finally t
closed by Governor Swettenham for- f
mally withdrawing his letter to Rear- I
Admiral Davis and expressing his re- e
gret for having written it. I
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vvaamugiuu, u. v^.?ouiuiais a.i iub i
State Department refuse to discuss
the report that Governor Swettenham
has withdrawn hi3 letter to Admiral
Davis and apologized therefor. s
It is pointed out that the Presi- (
dent has taken every means to make r
it evident that he .regards the Kings- j
ton episode as a closed incident, so ]
officials decline to comment on it in
any phase.
Baldwin Works Damaged. t
Fire did $1,000,000 damage to the <
plant of the Baldwin Locomotive i
.Works, Philadelphia. 1
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Bell Accused of Killing Dr. Towr.send.
I DaII tlfK aoa *?a1 O f i tTftfl rtAn
juliu uxziit ** uuoc iciaiivca tun*
fessed that he had admitted to them <
he had murdered Dr. Charles W. j
Town9end, of New Brighton, S. I., is <
determined to die at the hands of the *. ]
law, if not by his own hands. He re- ]
fused to see a lawyer. l ,
Coury Killed in His Factory.
Joseph Coury was slain and Jo'.m
Ged wounded by men who entered
Coury's new factory in West Hoboken,
N*. J., and claimed to own it.
Stub Ends of News.
fax. The New York Central began its
electric train service on the Harlem
, -V ".division.
Nearly 30,000 persons viewed the
body of Senator Alger as it lay in
state in Detroit.
Ralph N. Blakeslee, of Waterbury,
Conn., gave a "straw ride" to 6000
children in that city.
It was learned that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit had. formulated plans
to spend $6,000,000 on new tracks
and an addition to one of its power
plants.
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WEST'S FDELFAMINE WORSE
Morth Dakota Suffering From
Cold and Starvation.
President Roosevelt and (he Inter
state Commerce Commission
Urge Roads to Send Relief.
Washington, D. C.?The President,
:he members of the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the Congress
lelegation from North Dakota are*
gravely concerned over the fuel
"amine in lhat State, which shows no
signs of abatement and which is ensiling
such suffering that the people
ire growing desperate. Towns where
here is absolutely no fuel, the thermometer
is from twenty-five to thir;y-eighi
degrees below zero and mail
md railway communication with the
)utside world is completely shut off
ire besieging the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the President,
md their representatives in Congress,
)y telegraph, to afford them assistmce
at any cost.
In some instances even telegraphic
;ommunication is cut off, and messages
have to be carried ten or twen;y
miles across the snow covered and
ivind swe-pt prairies to the nearest
)pen telegraph office. Such was the
;u.se witu uue Leie&i'ain icccivcu. it
;omes from the Commercial Club, of
Vlaxbass, and was carried across the
>pen prairies ten miles to Eckman.
Vlaxbass is a small town on the Great
Northern Railway, close to the Canidian
line and a litttle west of midvay
between the eastern aad western
boundaries of North Dakota. This
message reads:
"Situation unchanged. Two coal
:ars (snowed in) between here and
Towner. Conditions grow more deslerate
every hour. Wira communica-1" '
ion cut off."
From New Rockford, on the Northirn
Pacific Railway, comes the followng
message:
"Fuel situation desperate. The
ailway on this branch not making
iny effort to-day to relieve us. Have
lad no freight this year, no ruail for
.welve days. People desperate. Will '
>urn railway property for fuel if
elief is not forthcoming within fortylight
hours."
Other information which reaches
he Interstate Commerce Commission
ndicates that Fresident Mill, of the
Jreat Northern Railway, has about
'thrown up his hands," has grown
liscouraged and abandoned the efort
to relieve the freezing people of .
sorth Dakota.
An early appeal for relief by the
'"ederal Government was answered by
i dispatch to the Governor of North
)akota, asking if it was not possible
or the State to afford relief. To this
he Governor replied that the railways
were doing everything possible,
neaning, apparently, to imply that he
:new of no way in which he could
ender assistance.
The Interstate Commerce Commision,
by direction of the President,
las twice telegraphed to the presilents
of the Great Northern and the
JnrfhArn Pacific Railways, urcine
hat everything possible be done to
elieve the situation, and assurances
lave been given that the requests
Fill be heeded; but the situation renains
unchanged, thousands of peo>le
are menaced by the constant danger
of freezing to death, and the rail- 1
vays seem powerless to relieve the
onditions.
WENDEL MUST STAND TRIAL.
governor Hnghes Rescinds Orders '
Dissolving the Court.
Albany, N. Y.?Captain Louis
Vendel, of the First Battery, New
fork City, cannot resign from the i
National Guard to escape having to !
ippear before a court of inquiry to
mswer to charges of conduct not be- i
lomine' an rffflrpr Onvernnr Hushes
escinded the orders issued by Ad- !
utant-General Henry, granting Wenlel
a discharge pursuant to his re- ]
[uest to be permitted to resign. Nothng
like this has happened within ]
ecent years in the National Guard, <
ind the effect of the Governor's ac- i
ion will cause not a little dismay in 1
ome circles. It has always been the
ustom to permit an officer to resign <
vhen he wanted to. <
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FIVE DIE IN TRAIN CRASH. f
freight Runs Into Passenger on Bos? 1
ton and Maine.
Deerfleld, Mass.?Five men were .
tilled and one seriously injured as ;
he result of a freight train running ]
nto the rear of a passenger train on
he Fitchburg division of the Boston
.nd Maine Railroad about a mile west
>f West Deerfield.
The dead are George B. Busseno, of
he express train, lived at Troy, N. Y.,
orty-seven years old, married; G. W.
iarrington, baggage master of the
impress, lived at Troy, N. Y.; M. A.
^itzpatrick, engine driver, Rotterdam
(unction, N. Y., and R. N. Dennison,
ireman, Mechanicsville, N. Y.
Tariff War Averted.
A longlterm arrangement to avoid
l trade war between America and
Jermany has been made by the comnissions
in conference at Berlin, suboftf
f a o nnfaifo 1 Kif Pa? nri/4 a
cll i,u ckyyiwai vj vuupi coo ciu.u. IUC
leichstag.
Witnesses Against Harriman.
Witnesses in the investigation of
;he Harriman merger, at Portland,
3re., testified that there had seemngly
been a cessation of competition
jetween the different roads since the
:ombination.
Standard Oil Resists Suit.
Motions were filed at Findlay,
Dhio, to quash the indictments i
igainst the Standard Oil Company,
3f Ohio; John D. Rockefeller, the i
Buckeye Pipe Line, the Ohio Oil Com- i
pany and the Solar Refining Com- I
pany.
Pullmnn Pfif rnmnnnv Inriirt^rt
The Grand Jury of Allegheny
County, at Pittsburg, has returned
six true bills against the Pullman
Palace Car Company for the sale of
impure milk and cream to its patrons.
Prominent People.
Andrew Carnegie gives $750,000
to build a home in Washington for 1
the Bureau of American Republics. 1
President Roosevelt and 250 prominent
men enjoyed the January din- 1
ner of the Gridiron Club,-in Washington,
D. C. 4 '<
Francis Emory Warren, who has
just been elected for the fourth time 1
to represent Wyoming in the Senate, 1
is a native of New England. 1
Senator Tillman probably earns
more money every year on the lecture (
platform than any other American '
who talks to the public lor pay.. J
TELL HOW OIL TRUST
HUMTED DOW RIVALS
Commerce Commissioners Say
Dnin \Afoe Itr Dn!ir>w
I \ UIII IIQO lid I UHUJ.
ITS METHODS DISREPUTABLE
Wide Discrimination by Railroads
Charged?Suggestion of More
Stringent Laws?Should Make
Pipe Lines Common Carriers.
Washington, D. C.?"The ruin of
all competitors is the policy of the
Standard Oil Company.
"It monopolizes the handling of
petroleum from the mouth of the well
to the consumer's cellar. It employs
spies and bribers.
"The Standard has secret rates
with most of the railroads. Worse
than that, the railroads prevent any
independent oil companies from competing
with the Standard. This they
accomplish not only by excessive
freight charges, but by interposing
their rights of way like a Chinese
wall against the laying of pipe lines
by any company but the Standard."
This scathing summary of the
Standard Oil P.nmnnnv'a slipped nf
fenses against legitimate trade was
transmitted to Congress by the Interstate
Commerce Commission in a report.
The investigation which the commission
has just completed into the
relations between the railroads and
the oil monopolists disclosed many
other equally criminal practices. So
close is the affection between the
Rockefeller Trust and the railroads
that the'commission admits the only
chance the independent oil dealer in
this country has of living is by developing
his trade in foreign countries,
whore they will not tolerate the
machinations which the Standard is
free to employ at home.
'"The Standard, through its monopoly
of the oil business in the country,
makes an enormous profit upon its
product," says the report. "Its net
profit on refined oil ranges from five
to eight cents a gallon, while upon
gasoline it makes much more.
"This gigantic gain is made possible
almost entirely by the action of
the railroads in refusing to permit
the independent oil companies to run
pipe lines along their right of way.
But for this arrangement and the discriminatory
freight rates the independent
oil concerns would have
nearly an equal opportunity in the
business."
The commission points out that Ihe
Rockefeller Trust goes even to the
extent of wrecking its competitors'
shipment of oil jn order to ruin them.
Whether this is done with the connivance
of the friendly railroads the
report fails to say, but numerous instances
are cited in which consignments
of o'l shipped by rivals of the
Standard have regularly failed to
reach their destination?many disappeared
entirely.
The practice of shutting out competition
by a temporary reduction of
price is another of the Standard's
means of cutting out opponents'
trade. Moreover, the commission
finds that it buys the news columns
of many papers and pays advertising
rates for invidious and sometimes
libelous "news stories" directed
against its competitors.
That the Rockefeller concern em
Dioys a lunct ior tiie purpose of bribing
railway officials and independent
Dil employes to give it secret information
of its rivals' business has
been proved, the commission says.
Not a single independent shipment is
made "without the knowledge of the
Standard, and every means short of
physical coercion is employed to
block it or stop the deal.
The report severeiy arraigns the
Standard's methods of competition.
On the question of remedies the
report makes these observations:
"More than anything else the pipe
line has contributed to the Standard
Dil monopoly, and its suoremacy
must continue until its rivals enjoy
the same transportation facilities.
"Under these conditions it may become
necessary to the uprooting of
sstablished wrongs and the prevention
of otbrfrs that the Government
3UC111 HA iU Lilt? ill &L lUStctLl'Jt; iiiOTattJa
and regulations for the transportation
of this traffic."
HENRY M. FIELD DEAD.
Last Survivor of a Famous FamilyNoted
Clergyman and Author.
Great Barrington.Mass.?The Rev.
Dr. Henry M. Field, last of the four
famous Field brothers?Stephen J.,
David Dudley and Cyrus W.?died in
ais home, in Stockbridge, Mass. His
Isath was due to a general breakdown
:aused by age.
The Rev. Henry Martyn Field was
:he clerical member of the quartet of
Fields wflose names have been houselold
words for nearly half a century.
[-Ie \yas best known as proprietor and
*ditor of the Evangelist. He was
aorn in Stockbridge in 1822.
Many Killed by Fire-Damp.
Two fire-damp disasters occurred
in Europe on the same day, one in
:he coal mines of the Saar district in
Rhenish Prussia and the othrr in the
Sourriers district of Northern France,
[n the first explosion there were at
least 200 victims; in the second the
:onfused reports set the number of
fatalities at anywhere from three to
aver
Persia Takes Railways.
At Teheran the National Assembly
of Persia has decided that revenues
from railways, pearl fisheries, mines
and concessions shall belong to the
national bank, the Shah being asked
to approve the decision.
Farewell Dinner to Brice.
A farewell dinner to James Bryce,
the Ambassador to the United States,
was given at Manchester, England;
Mr. Brice made a pleasant reference
to the incident at Kingston.
The Field of Labor.
Boilermakers at Norfolk, Va., are
on strike for a wage increase of twen
ty-five cents a day.
The strike of the Toronto (Canada)
piano workers is over, and the
men returned to work unconditionally.
Factories in Japan do not stop
work on Sundays, but usually the 1st
and the 15th of each month are holilays.
Findlay, Fostoria and Tifljn, three
enterprising cities of the Buckeye
State, have formed a tri-clty; labor
aongreas. _
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-.ji-fv-- PRINTING
MI BURNED
Three Firemen Lost in Buffalo,
N. Y, Fire.
Phelps Publishing Co., Owners of
"Good Housekeeping," Burned
Out in Springfield, Mass.
Springfield, Mass. ? The e^^rre
plant of the Phelps Publishing Company,
comprising four large brick
buildings and covering nearly an
acre of ground, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss estimated at almost
$1,000,000. It is practically covered
by insurance.
The fire started from spontaneous
combustion among some benzinesoaked
rass in the basement of the
main building.
The firm published the following
magazines:
Good Housekeeping, the American
Agriculturist, the Judd Farmer, the
New England Homestead, and Farm'
and Home.
Arrangements already have been
made for the publication of these in
New York and other cities while the
plant is being rebuilt.
The flames were first dfscovered by
the watchman in the basement of the
main building. He extinguished the
blaze in the rags and continued on
his rounds. The rags soon burst into
flame again, however, and the building
immediately caught fire. The automatic
sprinklers failed to quench
the flames, and by the time the firemen
arrived it was impossible to save
the plant.
In the buildings were many valuable
machines, including expensive
color presses. Nearly 450 persons
have been thrown out of employment
bv the destruction of the plant, which
was one of the hest of its kind in New
England.
Buffalo, N. Y.?A fire in the Columbia
Building, an eight-story structure
at 103 to 107 Seneca street, destroyed
the entire interior and caused
a loss estimated at between $400,000
and $500,000, and burned three firemen,
William J. Naughton, a lieutenant,
and John R. Hinky and Stephen
J. Megan. The injured are Captain
Michael A. Haggerty, John Daly, who
was rescued from the ruins two hours
after the collapse of the walls: Fireman
Elliott, rescued from debris soon
after Daly; Lieutenant J. C. Malloy,
Firemen Bensinger and Yaeger.
The financial loss is estimated at
$500,000, most of which will '/all
upon the Jewell estate, owners of the
building. Firms in surrounding
buildings suffered heavily from fire,
smoke and water.
GRAFT IN ATLANTIC CITY. '
Committee Finds Municipality Robbed
of $24,608.76?One Arrest.
Atlantic City, N. J.?The report of
the finance committee which has been
investigating the financial affairs of
the city, made public recently, discloses
that since August 31, 1904,
$24,608.76 had been stolen from the
city through the connivance of some
one in the office of the City Controller.
The report says that the former
supervisor of streets, Beriah Mathis,
and the former boardwalk supervisor,
G. Bolton Parsons, refused to surrender
their books to the expert accountants.
John Andrews, former chief clerk
in the office of the City Controller,
acknowledged several weeks ago that
he had been misusing,the city funds
and had taken about $4900. This
amount was made good by his turning
over to the city his interest in the
Hotel Metropolitan. He was permitted
to depart, but a few days ago
was arrested while in Washington.
He was brought back and placed under
$10,000 bail for the Grand Jury.
Irregularities in the accounts of
John T. Dyer & Co. and William E.
Dixey were found. The former had
been overpaid to the extent of
$3671.31, and that overpayments in
the Dixey account had cost the city
$2980, it was declared. The report
says the Dixey accounts were raised
as follows: $28 to S428, $2.15 to
$328, $35 to $435, $20 to $420.
HUDSON COURT HOUSE BURNS.
Woman Drops Child Thrse Stories
and is Saved by Firemen.
Hudson, N. Y. ? Flames, which
started in the Sheriff's office, destroyed
the Columbia County Court
House. All the fire companies were
soon at hand, but though they did excellent
work the structure burned
I ranidlv.
The third floor was occupied by
Dr. Charles Walker, and the flames
entered the dining room, where his
wife and young child were seated.
To save the child Mrs. Walker was
compelled to throw it from the window.
Several firemen broke the fall,
and the child was not killed, although
it struck the stone pavement and became
unconscious. Mrs. Walker hung
by her hands from the window sill
about five minutes, until a ladder was
raised to her.
The Court House was built in 1900
and cost about $150,000.
Engineer Drops Dead in Cab.
After the locomotive of a Rutland
freight train had broken away from
its cars and then had backed and
crashcd into the forward car of the
train at Bennington, Vt., the engineer,
Dexter Farnham, was found
in a state of collapse in his cab, and a
few minutes later he died. He had
been stricken with heart disease.
Confesses Murder of Father.
Mont Runyon, forty years old, who
was held ou suspicion for several days
at Delaware, Ohio, confessed to Chief
of Police Mathews that he shot and
killed his father at Williamson, W.
i Va., two weeks ago. during a quarrel
I while they were at work in a logging
I camp. The son fled, leaving the
; father's body in the woods.
Icc in Abundance.
Reports from Maine and up the
Hudson show an abundance of ice.
Sporting Notes.
More than $52,000,000 were spent
on English racing last year.
1 The subscription fund for the family
of Terry McGovern has passed
the $7000 mark.
The New York Yacht Club has
2447 members, all told, on its list,,
and a fleet of 577 vessels, representing
76,064 tons.
Not satisfied with having secured
control of half a dozen race tracks in
the West and South, Louis Cella, of
the notorious Cella-Adler-Tilles syndicate,
is now said to be planning to!
build a new race trar.k at Havana.,?<
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' EXPLOSION SUFFOCATES
SCORES ill ML Dill
Powder Shot Ignites Dust in ?
West Virginia Colliery.
RESCUING PARTIES AT WORf
Two Hundred Were in Shaft at Tim<
of Accident?SLvty Perished In
stantly?Victims in Pit 600 Feci
Deep.
Charleston, W. Va.?With a detO'
nation heard for miles around, coal
dust and gas in the Stuart mine, neai
Fayetteville, exploded, bringing a f.er
rible death to the eighty men who
were at work more than 500 feet be
low the surface. There is no chance
that any of the men will be taken oul
alive, for it is thought that the terrific
force of the explosion snuffec
out their lives instantly. It will no?
be possible for the rescuers to react
the bottom of the shaft for forty*
eight hours.
Most of the men were Americans,
and many of them were married and
had large families. There were s
dozen negroes and fifteen of more
foreigners.
The rescue work was begun as
soon as the wrecked parts of the
ahaft house could be repaired. About
two hours after the explosion thref
men were lowered into the shaft.
Before descending sixty feet two ol
the men were overcome iwith fou?
air, and the third was barely able tc
gi?e the signal io his comrades at the
top. All further attempts were abandoned
for the time. ,
Air was supplied to the mine by
several large fans, but the mechanism
was damaged, and the fans were
idle for about two hours. The fans
were then started again, and if the
men were not all dead by the force
3f the explosion, it may be that they
will have air enough to survive until
the rescuers reach them.
The scene about the mine is pachetic,
men, women and children crying
for their dear ones and imploring
those on the ground to go to their
rescue.
The Stuart mine is a shaft 568
c'eet deep. The development is in the
Sewall seam, which ranges in thickness
from four to five feet. The
mine is located on the White Oak
Fuel Company's private land,, connecting
with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad at Carlisle. The manager
is F. F. Dixon. The mine is
owned by the Stuart Colliery Company.
The bodies lie 600 feet below the
surface of the earth.
Fifteen men had just left the mine
and were far enough away from the
mouth to escape injury when the explosion
occurred.
The echo of the explosion had
hardly died away before the men on
the outside began to artange rescue
parties. It was found that the force
of the explosion had put the ventilating
fans out of commission and disarranged
the cage so that it took
two hours to get things in condition
for the first venture.
Superintendent Dixon, Tom Davis
and James Whistle started down in
the cage, but had not gone far when
they found themselves overcome by
the fumes and had to give the hoisting
signal. Dixon was the only one
who had sufficient strength to let it
be known to those above what was
wanted, and but for him the three
would have perished. They were
drawn back and no further attenml
has been made to go into the mine.
PRESIDENT CHECKS FRAUDS.
Directs That Examination Be Made
Before Patents Issue.
Washington, D. C. ? President
Roosevelt has determined to put an
end, if possible, to frauds in the acquisition
of public land3 by individuals
and corporations. He hak directed
that hereafter no patent shall
be issued to public land until an examination
of the ground shall have
been made by an authorized officer of
the Government.
The President's order is in the
form of a letter to Secretary Hitchcock,
and under its provisions orders
are being sent out by the officials of
tut; ut'uci ai uauu uuac.
F. C. STEVENS OLIVER'S BACKER,
Superintendent of Public Works Behind
Panama Canal Contract.
Albany, N. Y.?Frederick C. Stevens,
the State Superintendent of Public
Works, announced that he is the
financial backer of William J. Oliver.
wl\o is to get the Government contract
for building the Panama Canal.
Mr. Stevens has made millions of
dollars as a man of large affairs and
is essentially a business man of this
period.
MANY CHINESE DROWNED.
Over a Hundred Lives Lost in Squall
at Hong Kong.
Hong Kong.?A heavy squall broke
over Hong Kong, and in ten minutes
sank more than fifty Chinese craft in
the harbor, more than 100 natives
being drowned. There were no casualties
among the white population.
Launches rescued many persona. The
harbor was littered with wreckage
from the sunken junks.
Must Pay Earthquake Losses.
In a test case in San Francisco,
Judge Whitson decided against the
earthquake clause in insurance policies
exempting companies from payment
of losses in the recent disaster.
Emperor William Lauded.
Popular laudation of the Kaiser
and brilliant illumination in Berlin
marked the celebration of the Ger
mail sovereign's birthday.
Newsy Paragraph}!.
Mine. Bernhardt wants to see
Alaska.
"Elijah" Dowie has quit with a
pension.
Cornell University now offers a
reading course for farmers' wives.
Women will compete for the championship
singles in the national indoor
tennis torunament.
Germany, France and Russia have
responded favorably to Norway's request
for the neutralization ot her
territory.
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President Roosevelt sent a special
jaessage to Congress urging the passage
of the ship subsidy bill.
It was announced that Chief En/
cineer Stevens would succeed Mr.
' Bhonts as chairman of the Panama
Canal Commission.
Secretary Metcalf issued a stat.e
ment showing that Admiral Davia
had been asked to land men at Kingly
Bton to quell an alleged mutiny in
the prison, and quoting a precedent
Cor landing men without a request.
' Secretary of State Root has reI
urned from Canada.
By General Ainsworth's report the
iountry is shown to have over 13,<00,000
available for military duty.
1 Charles D. Walcott, director of the
feologieal Survey, was elected secreary
of the Smithsonian Institution
>y the Board of Regents at its annual
nootJno- *
President Roosevelt instructed the
ecruiting officers of the army to enlst
a.sufficient number of negroes
io fill the vacancies in the Twenty5fth
Infantry created by the dis:harge
of the three companies involved
in the Brownsville affair.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The average laborer of Hawaiian
plantation gets about $21 a month.
Governor Winthrop, of Portb.Rico,
lad a narrow escape from death in a
railroad accident.
The Hawaiian Territory is composed
of eight principal islands, with
i population according to census of
1900 of 154,001.
General Jose Miguel Gomez, Libsral
Presidential candidate, ex-Conjressman
Mendieta and General Monteazudo
were fined SSO each for cock
fighting in Havana, Cuba.
The Porto Rican Legislature met
and elected Francisco De P. Acuna
Speaker.
The Philippine Islands are largely
Increasing their purchases of flour,
oats, compressed bay, dairy products
and live stock from the State of Victoria,
Australia. The total was $300,000
in the first nine months of last
year.
DOMESTIC.
Governor Hoch, of Kansas, was inaugurated
for a second term.
The Presbytery of Norfolk, Va.,
will make a display at the Jamestown
Exposition.
Mr. Shonts 3poke hopefully at Kansas
City on the work, accomplished
on the.Isthmus of Panama.
William James, professor of philosophy
at Harvard Univeristy, announced
his withdrawal from active
teaching.
Following a conference with his
attorneys, J. W. Cowan, charged with
misuse ox tne mans at uaiiaa, jlc^.u?>,
tried to kill himself.'
Commander R. E. Peary has resigned
the presidency of the American
Geographical Society.
The Legislative Investigating Committee
hearing charges against Senator
Bailey at Austin, Texas, held
secret meetings.
A leak of natural gas caused the
asphyxiation of Mr. and Mrs. Clement
Leidy and their infant son at
Fostoria, Ohio. ,
John D. Rockefeller has been reelected
superintendent of the Sunday
school of the Euclid Avenue Church,
at Cleveland, Ohio, a position he has
held for over twenty-four years.
Jailing from a steamboat on the
Wabash at Princeton, Ind., H. E.
Ager, member of the Indiana Legislature,
was drowned.
Nearly 150,000 people vifeited the
Automobile show iu Madison Square
Garden, New York Oity, during the
week, and sales aggregated nearly
$10,000,000.
Eert Hanson, a lawyer, former
Yale football player and treasurer of
the Cornell University Club, was appointed
Third Deputy Police Commissioner
in New York City.
The National Export Lumber Association
has elected J. L. Alcott, of
Baltimore, as president, and G. V.
Spiegel, of Philadelphia, first vicepresident.
FOREIGN.
The last volume of General Kuropatkin's
history of the Russo-Japanese
war, entitled the "Lesson of the
War," has been confiscated by the
Imperial authorities.
Denouncing the new French Apostolic
Catholic Church organized in
Paris, the Vatican authorities declared
Archbishop Vilalette an apostate.
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When the Ameer of Afghanistan
reached the frontier on his visit to
India, King Edward sent a telegram
of welcome.
Intense cold weather in Central
Russia has caused the loss of many
lives.
A dispatch from Berlin said that
the second son of August Thyssen
has mortgaged his share in his father's
estate for $2,{500,000 or more.
With the Cabinet's approval, the
bill dispensing with formal declarations
as preliminary to church service
was introduced in the French
Chamber of Deputies.
Secretary Root was the guest of
+Vio flsmsrilan Club at a luncheon at
Ottawa; he read a message of thanks
from Governor Swettenham for the
aid given by the American warships
at Kingston.
The net profits of the HamburgAmerican
Steamship Company for
1906 were $8,000,000, of which $5,250,000
is held for depreciation, and
a dividend of ten per cent, is proposed.
Admiral Dikoff, aide-de-camp to
the Czar, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief
of the Russian fleet,
to succeed Vice-Admiral Birlleff, resigned.
At the celebration of the Servian
New Year King Peter paid marked
attention to Secretary Schuyler, of
the American Legation, and British
Minister Whitehead.
T-* ----11 ~?/> fcrrt 1n?n
rtussia. wtii uccu
this year, as the small amount needed
will tie obtained by an imperial issue.
Belgrade newspapers point out the
necessity of ending the friction between
Bulgarian and Servian bands
in Macedonia, declaring only Austria
would benefit by a war.
A single State of Brazil?Sao Paulo?is
going to spend $300,000, gold,
in getting immigrants from Europe.
Emperor William has conferred
the Red Eagle Order of the First
Class on Baron Speck von Sternberg,
the Ambassador of Germany at
Washinston. D. C.
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Says Pe-ru-na Is a Good .
Medicine.
Hon. 0. C. Brooks, Mayor of Banbury,.
Ohio, also Attorney for Farmers' Bank
and Sunbury Building .and Loan Co.,
writes:
"1 have tbe utmost confidence in the
virtue of Peruna. It is a great medicine.'
1 have used it and I have known many,
of my friends who have obtained beneficial
results from its use. I cannot
praise Peruna too highly.
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rnHERE are a host of toetty ailment* '
JL which are the, direct result of the A .
weather.
This is more true of the excessive beat = :
of summer and the intense cold of winter,
but is partly true of all seasons of
the year.
Whether it be a cold or a cough, catarrh \x'
of the head or bowel com plaint- whether,
the liver, be affected or the kidneys, the
cause is "very liable to be the saint.'
The weather slightly deranges: the nm< . >- J3
c-?u3 membranes of the organs and jtfus r*- ' /;
suit is some functional, disease. , /j . 1
Peruna has become a standby in
thousands of homes for minor aU-* r
ments of this sort. > ,
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Hoarseness, Coughs,
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The standard remedy
used for generations..
25 Cents, 50 Ceais, $1.00
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In the Coming Days.
Husband?"Maria, this is going to I
be a closely contested election, and *
we've got to get everybody out. You'll
havu to hurry, or you'll be too late/'
Wife?"Gracious, John! I can't 1 ,/v
vote to-day. There's no use in talking
about it. I haven't a thLng that's
fit to wear to the polls."?Chicago
Tribune. h
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. The sea-level canal from Marseilles
to the Rhone River is to be
completed in seven years at a cost
of $-13,730,000.
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XLL JJUUUJiaua Ut/1 <H>IW V4 * wmmwww wlaid
in 1906. .
PHILIPPINE "DOBIE ITCH."
Itching Pimples Covered Body-??Discharged
For Disability?Found
Cure in Cuticnra Remedies. .
"I enlisted in the Corps of Engineers aa
a telegraph operator, and, while stationed - in
the Philippines, I became subject to'the ' ' .
'Dobie Itch/ as the natives call it. In v
this disease small, white, itching pimples
form under the skin, generally between the
toes, on the limbs, between the fingers
and under the arms. I never knew of a
case originating outside the Philippine .. .
Islands, but have known of many cases
where it has returned in this country and
invariably at the same time of the year
as the original attack. The cause, to far
as I could learn, was some tropical parasite
or perm peculiar to that region. ?"I
got so bad that I was confined to ray
quarters a week at a time. The Army
Surgeons applied some carbolic Bolutiort,
and it would, disappear for a time, when it
would break out again. I was discharged
from the Engineers by reason of disability .
contracted in line of duty, and when I
had the trouble again, my druggist, Mr. /.
Z , of Brooklyn, recommended Cuticnra
Remedies. The immediate relief was manifest
with my first purchase, and the
malady quickly Voided-to the Cuticnra
Remedies. It has never recurred or boihered
me since I began to use and continued
to use the Cuticura Remedies. You may
quote me aa a believer in Cuticura Remedies
from personal experience. John 8.
Woods, 221 Sands St., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Oct. 21 and 26, 1906."
Estimates of the country's copper
production this year place the output
at between 940,000,000 and 970,
000,000 pounds. Last year's production
was 901,000,000 pounds.
AWFUL ATTACKS OP PAIN.
A Most Dreadful Case of Kidnejr
Trouble and How It Was Cured.
Thomas N. McCullough, 321 South
Weber St., Colorado Springs, Colo.,
?says: "For twelve
or fifteen years I
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T pain in the back
\2B2p3y k and kidneys that
j lasted for three
weeKs at a time.
I would be unable
vmfm The urine was in
a terrible condition, at times a complete
stoppage occurring. I began
with Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon
felt better. Keeping on, I found complete
freedom from kidney trouble.
The cure has been permanent. I owe
my good health to Doan's Kidney
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